Using images for the status screen.

[Elastic Mush]

I was wondering, when checking the status for a character. Is it possible to make it show a different picture other than the sprite for visual display of the character? If you've played Tales of Symphonia or something like that, reading info on characters showed a large anime picture of them. I sort of want to do that with my game. I want the Status screen to show a large anime version of the sprites depicted as they are in concept.

How would I go about doing this?

 

[Ludicus]

Hmm.You want it to look like this?

Spoiler: Screenshot

Yeah,I know it looks like ...ahem.

If so,make a new script and add this:

class Window_Base

  

def draw_actor_picture (actor, x, y)

bitmap = Sprite.new

bitmap = RPG::Cache.picture(actor.name + "_pic")

wdt = bitmap.width

hgt = bitmap.height

self.contents.blt(x , y , bitmap, Rect.new(0 ,0 , wdt, hgt))

end 

 

end

After that,go to Window_Status(if you use the default status) or your status screen and call the method

Spoiler

draw_actor_picture(@actor, x, y)

Where x and y are the X and Y coordinates,respectively

Of course,you still need the pics.Put them in the pictures folder,and name them exactly like the character and add '_pic' at the end(without the quotes).For example," Aluxes_pic ".

Cheers.

 

[Elastic Mush]

Thanks man!
This really helped ^^